03/02/2013
Poetry requested by listeners, introduced by Roger McGough, including work by Vernon Scannell and Adrian Mitchell - and an unusual conversation between a cockroach and an Egyptian mummy.
Producer Christine Hall.
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Poems featured in today's programme
Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannell
From Collected Poems 1950-1993
Published by Robson Books
Hide and Seek by Roger McGough
From All the Best
Published by Puffin
Archy Interviews a Pharaoh by Don Marquis
From Archy and Mehitabel
Published by Faber
Beattie is Three by Adrian Mitchell
From Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits
Published by Bloodaxe
Disguise by Adrian Mitchell
From Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits
Published by Bloodaxe
In the Orchard After Midnight by Brian Patten
Unpublished
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(from The Princess)
From Alfred Lord Tennyson Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
Patterns by Amy Lowell
From Men, Women and Ghosts
Published by Tredition
Peerless Jim Driscoll by Vernon Scannell
From Collected Poems 1950-1993
Published by Robson Books
What I Need for the Present by Brian Patten
From Collected Love Poems
Published by Harper Perennial
They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
From Collected Poems 1950-1993
Published by Robson Books
Death is Smaller than I Thought by Adrian Mitchell
From Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits
Published by Bloodaxe
The music used was a setting ofΜύ"Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white" by Paul Mealor, from the CD "A Tender Light" on the Decca label.
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Broadcasts
- Sun 3 Feb 2013 16:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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